Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware : the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Bibliographic Information
- Title
- "Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware : the Super Nintendo Entertainment System"
- Statement of Responsibility
- Dominic Arsenault
- Publisher
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- The MIT Press
- Publication Year
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- 2017
- Book size
- 24 cm
- Series Name / No
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- : hard
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Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index
Summary: "While there have been a great many triumphs written about video games (the first game developed jointly by MIT and Harvard; the wild success of Pong at a rather seedy bar in Sunnyvale, CA; the Golden Age of Videogames; and the growing prominence of video games over screen-based entertainment mediums), there of course had to be failures and the Nintendo SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was the beginning of Nintendo's downfall. This is a book about Nintendo, and how it lived the "16-bit console wars" that saw it go from being the undisputed industry leader in the 8-bit generation of consoles with more than a 90% market share in 1989 to a marginally leading top player with a 60% share of the video game market at the end of the 16-bit console war, and all the way down to its Nintendo 64 selling a little less than one-third as many units as Sony's dominating PlayStation console. (Malik 1997) Ultimately, it is a critical history of Nintendo's fall from grace, from the height of a period I dub th
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1130282273036044544
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- NII Book ID
- BB25830020
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- ISBN
- 9780262036566
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- LCCN
- 2016055172
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- Web Site
- https://lccn.loc.gov/2016055172
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Country Code
- us
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- Title Language Code
- en
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- Place of Publication
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- Cambridge, MA
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- Subject
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- Data Source
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- CiNii Books